Squirrel Feeder

Squirrel-activated cameras in testing a way to feed red squirrels without the grey ones stealing all their nuts.

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Invaders

Here’s a grey squirrel. Partly to show the cause of all the red’s misfortune and partly because I actually took the photos.

These things arrived at my home 5 years ago, moving in from the south. One of my neighbours dropped round just now to say one or two reds have been seen at the top of the valley but otherwise there aren’t really any red squirrels left for miles and miles. My project is going to have to be right up in the North of the Lake District where there are still a decent number, for the moment anyway. But the greys are moving fast…

# posted by henry @ 2:07 pm

Comments:

i love the third photo :o)
how did you manage to take it?

# posted by  Anonymous : 12:17 am

 

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Henry Dobson

Testing a revolutionary size-selective squirrel feeder that could help red squirrels to resist the grey squirrel invasion. Research carried out as an Honours project in zoology at the University of Glasgow

All images copyright Henry Dobson excepting those taken in Gosforth Park Nature Reserve as part of an ongoing 3 year research project, copyright Veronica Carnell.

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